Sushrut Arora

Sushrut Arora
Research Scientist
Baylor college of Medicine
Texas Children's Hospital Houston,
USA
Official e-mail address: sushruta@bcm.edu

Dr. Sushrut Arora completed his B.V.Sc.&A.H. in 2002 from College of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry, MHOW, India. He did his M.V.Sc. in Veterinary Public Heath from College of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry, Mathura, India, where he worked on developing rapid methods for detection of foodborne pathogens and was recipient of the University Merit Scholarship. Later he was trained at a BSL-3+ laboratory where he worked on molecular- and immuno-detection of different pathogens, such as avian influenza virus, bovine immunodeficiency virus and anthrax. He finished his Ph.D. from Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland in 2011. During Ph.D. he was recipient postgraduate research scholarship under Postgraduate Research Scholarship Scheme of the Embark Initiative of the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET), Ireland and worked on development of antibody-based strategies for detection of sub-clinical mastitis. Thereafter, he joined Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Houston, USA and worked on antibody characterization for their catalytic potential for therapeutic targeting.

Diagnostics – PCR-based diagnostics, Immunodiagnostics, Food Microbiology Antibody generation, Characterization and engineering, Antibody-based, Biosensors, Bacterial infections, Zoonosis.